A civilian commission tasked with oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department voted unanimously Thursday to pursue legal action against Sheriff Alex Villanueva, a day after he defied a subpoena to testify on measures to protect incarcerated people against Covid-19 infection in county jails.
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Ramping up an investigation tied to the president’s political rival, a Republican-led Senate committee voted Wednesday to issue the first subpoena related to Hunter Biden’s role at a Ukrainian energy conglomerate.
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Supreme Court arguments stretched for more than three hours Tuesday with few hints from the justices on how they will resolve multiple subpoenas over President Donald Trump’s financial records.
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In a pair of cases that test the limits of presidential privileges and the relationship between the executive and legislative branches, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over whether House Democrats and a New York prosecutor can subpoena President Donald Trump’s financial records and tax returns.
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In a pair of legal battles that could upend the balance of power in Washington, House Democrats on Tuesday urged the majority liberal D.C. Circuit to intervene in interbranch disputes with the Trump White House.
Read moreA federal magistrate judge in Colorado ordered the Denver Sheriff to comply with administrative subpoenas from Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking information related to three individuals who are currently or were recently in the sheriff’s custody on criminal charges. The sheriff challenged the legality of the subpoenas but the court ruled she did not cite any authority “other than the lack of specific language in the statute explicitly applying to local governments.”
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A bipartisan coalition called for an investigation of how the FBI has handled subpoenas in the lawsuit that calls Saudi Arabia complicit in the 9/11 attacks.
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A federal judge put the House lawsuit for President Donald Trump’s tax returns on hold Friday. Unlike other cases across the country that have ground to a halt, however, this stay relates not to the coronavirus pandemic but to another subpoena facing appellate scrutiny.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Friday agreed to hear the House Judiciary Committee’s bid to secure testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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After trying to kill herself a day earlier, Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who disclosed hundreds of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks nearly a decade ago, will finally be released from a Virginia jail.
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Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who last month broke ranks with Republicans by voting to convict President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, said Friday he will back a subpoena in an investigation into presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son.
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Asking the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a controversial case on immunity for presidential advisers, the House Judiciary Committee argued Friday that the court’s failure to enforce subpoenas leaves Congress with few remedies, among them arresting White House officials.
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Warily reigniting a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a federal judge warned the parties Thursday that the separate battle to subpoena White House counsel Don McGahn could waylay the case.
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A Russian national nicknamed “Putin’s chef” told a federal judge Wednesday that his catering business has complied fully with U.S. government subpoenas ahead of a criminal trial next month where the company will face charges of 2016 election interference.
Read moreA federal court in Washington ruled that conservative group Judicial Watch may depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit relating to her use of a private email server during her tenure at the State Department. The court also ruled that the group may subpoena Google for records relating to her emails.
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A Trump-appointed judge said Monday there is a strong likelihood that the Russian firm charged with funding interference in the 2016 presidential election has failed to comply with a government subpoena, a legal botch likely to trigger a contempt-of-court finding.
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The D.C. Circuit handed President Donald Trump a decisive win Friday, ordering the dismissal of suit by House Democrats seeking to subpoena presidential advisers.
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A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the National Rifle Association cannot intercept documents related to an investigation by the New York state attorney general’s office into its nonprofit status.
Read moreA California trial court improperly ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to disclose private communications between a murder victim and prosecution witness in a case stemming from a drive-by shooting, an appeals court in the state ruled, granting the companies’ motion to quash the subpoenas.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida reversed an order quashing subpoenas seeking a media company’s records showing its actual costs to produce celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s cooking show “Emeril’s Florida.” The information is sought as part of the Florida House of Representatives’ investigation into the integrity of certain tourism promotion contracts.
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